Ranking - September 16, 2015

Comscore Releases August 2015 U.S. Desktop Search Engine Rankings

RESTON, VA, September 16, 2015 – Comscore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a global media measurement and analytics company, today released its monthly Comscore qSearch™ analysis of the U.S. desktop search marketplace. Google Sites led the explicit core search market in August with 63.8 percent of search queries conducted.

U.S. Explicit Core Search
Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in August with 63.8 percent market share, followed by Microsoft Sites with 20.6 percent (up 0.2 percentage points) and Yahoo Sites with 12.7 percent. Ask Network accounted for 1.8 percent of explicit core searches, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.2 percent.

*Comscore Explicit Core Search Share Report (Desktop Only) August 2015 vs. July 2015 Total U.S. – Desktop Home & Work Locations Source: Comscore qSearch**
Core Search Entity	Explicit Core Search Share (%)
Core Search Entity	Jul-15	Aug-15	Point Change
Total Explicit Core Search	100.0%	100.0%	N/A
Google Sites	64.0%	63.8%	-0.2
Microsoft Sites	20.4%	20.6%	0.2
Yahoo Sites	12.7%	12.7%	0.0
Ask Network	1.8%	1.8%	0.0
AOL, Inc.	1.2%	1.2%	0.0

*“Explicit Core Search” excludes contextually driven searches that do not
reflect specific user intent to interact with the search results.

17.6 billion explicit core searches were conducted in August, with Google Sites ranking first with 11.3 billion. Microsoft Sites ranked second with 3.6 billion searches (up 1 percent), followed by Yahoo Sites with 2.2 billion, Ask Network with 310 million and AOL, Inc. with 215 million (up 4 percent).

Comscore Explicit Core Search Query Report (Desktop Only) August 2015 vs. July 2015 Total U.S. – Desktop Home & Work Locations Source: Comscore qSearch
Core Search Entity	Explicit Core Search Queries (MM)
Core Search Entity	Jul-15	Aug-15	Percent Change
Total Explicit Core Search	17,654	17,640	0%
Google Sites	11,293	11,256	0%
Microsoft Sites	3,596	3,627	1%
Yahoo Sites	2,246	2,233	-1%
Ask Network	313	310	-1%
AOL, Inc.	206	215	4%

“Powered By” Reporting
In August, 64.9 percent of searches carried organic search results from Google, while 31.3 percent of searches were powered by Bing (up 0.3 percentage points).

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